Ancient Mesopotamia

These were built around the cities of Mesopotamia to provide protection.

• Walls

• Fences

• Canals

• Ziggurat

City-states often fought over this resource

• Land

• Cylinder Seals

• Walls

• Canals

A city and all the land around it (similar to a small country)

• City-State

• Small Country

• Nation

• Town

Conquered the Sumerians, Hammurabi created a Code of Laws for this group of people.

• Hittites

• Babylonians

• Assyrians

• Chaldeans

Created the world's first library in their capital city of Nineveh.

• Assyrians

• Hittites

• Babylonians

• Chaldeans

Division of society by rank or class (class system)

• Social Hierarchy

• Clicks

• Gangs

• Monarch

Fertile farmland that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Fertile Crescent

• Sumer

• Babylon

• Tigris River

First group of people to master iron working and invented the chariot.

• Hittites

• Babylonians

• Assyrians

• Chaldeans

This man set up the world's first permanent army and the world's first empire.

• Sargon the Great

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

• Darius the Great

This was invented to keep track of business transactions.

• Writing

• Math

• Scribes

• Cylinder Seals